Senate Republicans Oppose
Clinton's Trade Proposal

By

Bob Davis Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 18, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- After alienating many House Democrats by proposing meager labor and environmental protection in new "fast-track" trade legislation, the administration was pilloried in the Senate by influential Republicans who claimed those same provisions were too draconian.

"I would rather that the U.S. sit on the sidelines than to see us destroy the world trading process by injecting into it labor and environmental conditions that will disrupt trade," said Sen. Phil Gramm, a staunch free-trader who said...